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| Fact | Details | |------|----------| | | June Bates (sometimes credited as June Bates‑Smith) | | Birth | 1959, Manchester, United Kingdom | | Genre | Contemporary lyric poetry, often exploring love, identity, and everyday wonder | | Publications | Whispers in the Wind (1998), Heartbeats & Horizons (2005), numerous literary journals (e.g., The New Review , Poet’s Quarterly ) | | Awards | 2003 Forward Poetry Prize (shortlisted), 2010 Society of Authors’ Poetry Grant | | Online Presence | Official website (www.junebatespoet.com) with a “Free Poems” section, and a modest following on Instagram and Facebook where she occasionally shares full‑text PDFs of selected works. | (The full text is copyrighted; see “How to